The Saturation of Color Group Show Opens

Saturation is the colorfulness of a color relative to its own brightness. With this concept in mind, four of our artists; Britt Freda, Joshua S. Franco, Mark Gould and Wendeline Matson went to work.

Seattle based, Britt Freda, formally trained in New York and Florence has a poetic formula for her paintings usually involving acrylic, graphite and mixed media. Los Ranchos de Albuquerque acrylic painter, Joshua S. Franco brings a surrealist quality to the show’s concept. Taos acrylic colorist, Mark Gould was a natural choice for this show and promises to introduce new, groundbreaking work. Rounding out the group is Wendeline Matson from Tulsa, known for her whimsical ‘Innocence Realism’ acrylic paintings.

LAYERS: SPOTTED OWL by Britt Freda

I LOVE WALKING THE DOG WITH YOU by Joshua S. Franco

COPPICE 880 by Mark Gould

JUNE #2 by Wendeline Matson

 This wonderful show is currently on view in the gallery through July 26th, 2012. Please visit us soon or look over our website to enjoy the whole show.
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New Works by Colorado Oil Painter, Deb Kaylor

'Florence Window' oil on linen 16x20

'Texting in Church' oil on linen 24x20

'A Magic Moment' oil on linen 30x40

Please enjoy these new works by Deb Kaylor. A Colorado oil painter, Deb loves to travel. She especially enjoys France and Italy, where most of her family originates from. Deb considers herself a representational painter with a contemporary bent. However, she'll be the first to tell you that her painting must be more than a good likeness or honest representation. It must tell a story and create a mood. Each painting is an exercise melding together a pleasing composition, color harmony and shapes, lines and patterns.

'Vaison La Ramaine' oil on linen 30x24

The Gallery Welcomes Woodblock Artist, Lily Schlien

HOMAGE TO TYTO ALBA

TWO RAVENS WITH SUNSPOTS

IS ANYBODY LISTENING?

ABIQUIU AUGUST

Lily working in her Santa Fe studio

DRY FARMING

My imagery comes from nature, from my immediate surroundings such as the ravens that fly by my studio window daily on their rounds, the iris that I get to see for only a few weeks in my garden.  Other pieces grow from certain image themes that have been with me for decades:  moon cycles, importance and beauty of the corn plant, birds, feathers, roots.  I am seeking to understand the life force of nature, to reflect not just what I see but how I respond.  It is not necessary to replicate nature but to give a true illusion...leaving room in between what was or is, hence leaving room for the viewer and myself to feel, to find a personal reality.

5 New Works by oil painter, Ben Steele

'Campbell's Crayons Blue' oil on canvas 44x40

'Scary Dairy' oil on canvas 25x30

'Van Gogh Gumballs' oil on canvas 60x30

'Marker Masterpiece' oil on canvas 30x33

'Complete Breakfast' oil on canvas 55x50

New Works by Britt Freda

WHITE ELEPHANT

TANGLED CIRCLES: BARN, BARRED, SPOTTED

Dissolving Series by Britt Freda

I find that it is in the unraveling, the undoing, the dis-solving of a thing that the most relevant and rich voice is revealed. Sometimes it is luminous and sometimes it is the dark that matters. When I think about deconstructing to the essence, I seem to conjure up a black stack of tangled, overused language about simplicity, so common and piled so high that it has become mostly inaudible, invisible. But other times I think of it and I see the tangled letters falling away, unraveling string-like, recoiling and wrapping circuitously around simple shapes, seductively worthy of pause. When that happens I am happy.-Freda

SOMETIMES UNDER THE WINGS OF MOTHS, THERE IS LIGHT

Featuring Joshua S. Franco

Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM resident, Joshua S. Franco joined the gallery this winter. An acrylic surrealist painter, here are a few works currently in the gallery.

SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT AND STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING

CHANGING SEASONS

"Growing up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, among the ghosts and mausoleums of industrial manufacturing, might have shaped me in a different way, had it not been for the influence of my mother, a talented painter who worked in oils. Endlessly inventive, unafraid of color, she instilled in me early on an appreciation for beauty and the profoundly personal understanding that, in this world, one could literally paint one’s self free - an idea that appealed to me." -Franco

 

AFTER THE RIGHT WAS HUNG UP, THE LEFT CONTINUED

MAKING A LOVE STORY

DOUGLAS KENT HALL

"It is my feeling that the great traditions live in all of us, and that alongside all of the ingenious novelties at our disposal, these traditions continue to inform art’s most imaginative and inspired experiments. Many of my paintings have a Surrealist influence. Working mainly with acrylic, I explore the complexity of relationships and the feelings that accompany them  - love, desire, longing, fear -  subjects familiar to us all. Of course, all of these topics are the order of the day in film, literature and music, but for me the rules of the imagination, the way chance and surprise provide unexpected twists of meaning, are what gives a painting its authentic surge, its real presence and power" -Franco